vstars Chapter 144 The truth about the snake god
Chapter 144 The truth about the snake god
Zhang Qiling kept his eyes down, his gaze deep and unfathomable. What Wu Xie said earlier wasn't without reason. If the deeper areas of Snake Head Mountain weren't open to the public, then why were tickets being sold for people to visit?
This is abnormal and illogical. For someone with ulterior motives, it would be easy to violate regulations and enter the unopened depths of Snakehead Mountain.
This is more like a default setting...
Sure enough, the fellow villager's answer to Wu Xie's next question confirmed Zhang Qiling's guess.
"Fellow villager, is the snake god you're talking about really that powerful? Have you ever seen the snake god?"
"Only those who have angered the serpent god have seen it. Of course, I haven't seen it myself, but I have seen people who angered the serpent god and returned alive!"
Wu Xie became interested, but the fellow villager clearly had no intention of continuing the conversation, leaving Wu Xie feeling stuck and restless.
“It’s not that I don’t want to talk about it, but this snake god… will hear it.”
The fellow villager's expression gave off a pretentious air of profundity. Wu Xie's cultivation was still shallow, so it was no wonder he couldn't see through it. But with Zhang Qiling and Lao Yang's shrewdness, how could they not know this guy's tricks?
Lao Yang chuckled and pulled out a hundred-yuan bill from his pocket: "Is it that you can't say, or that you don't want to say?"
"This..." The villager's eyes darted around, and he began to waver.
"This is your last chance. Take it or leave it." Lao Yang held another card between his fingers, but the fellow villager snatched it away in an instant.
"I can speak, I can speak..."
Wu Xie looked at the fellow villager with a complicated expression, then at Lao Yang. He felt a sharp pain in his heart. He could have hired a decent tour guide for that price! What was this spendthrift thinking? If he didn't want to talk, he shouldn't have! Why did he have to pay him?
"Actually, there's nothing to laugh about; it's not a secret in our village."
Wu Xie gritted his teeth and cursed under his breath: "You're asking for money even though it's not a secret, you bastard!"
"That was six years ago, in early spring. At that time, there was a rare torrential rain in the mountains, which prevented people from our village from going to the market."
And so, almost everyone in our village saw a dragon-like shadow in the lightning bolts that struck down from Snake Head Mountain. Our village chief, being the oldest and knowing more than anyone else in the village, said, "That was the Snake God! The Snake God manifested!"
Wu Xie and Lao Yang carefully observed the fellow villager's expression and could not find any trace of lying. It was as if he had really seen the snake god he claimed to be.
Only Zhang Qiling paused slightly when he heard the words "like a dragon".
Six years ago... could it have been Yan Huai? If so, why was he here? And now, why has he come back?
Qi Yu sensed Zhang Qiling's inner doubts and knew that he, like Yan Huai, was getting closer and closer to the truth.
Six years ago, when Yan Huai left Puyang Village and bid farewell to Yin Lan and her son, he did come here because he sensed the unusual movement of the soul in the original world and came here specifically to investigate.
However, as a result... Yan Huai not only failed to establish a connection with the soul of the original world, but also suffered immeasurable damage to his mental strength due to the mutual repulsion between the two halves of the soul.
This is something Qi Yu only learned after waking up from its slumber. It doesn't know what happened to Yan Huai in the original world, but it's definitely related to the Wang family.
And as it turns out, Yan Huai's half of his soul from the original world was imprisoned in Avici Hell by an old monk who had fallen into delusion.
That was supposed to be Yan Huai's last life to purify his soul, but unexpectedly, because of the desires of a mortal, the malice in his soul that should have dissipated returned, making everyone's sacrifices in vain.
As for the monk who had delusional thoughts, he was the reincarnation of Wang Tong, the first head of the Wang family.
Sometimes, the cycle of cause and effect is something you can't help but believe in...
The damage to his mental strength was almost fatal to Yan Huai at the time. He became unresponsive to the outside world, like a mentally challenged child. Fortunately, Yan Chen, who was also in a deep sleep, woke up in advance and secretly protected him, allowing him to spend six years peacefully in the depths of the Qinling Mountains.
Until Qi Yu went to the original world to bring back Yan Huai's other half of his soul...
Leaving aside the twists and turns and misunderstandings of the process, the point is that after the person returns, their memories need to be reset. This is why Yan Huai lost his memory, and why forcibly recalling it would damage his mental strength.
The snake god that the fellow villager mentioned, which is the dragon-like shadow, is actually Yan Chen, Yan Huai's brother who grew up with him tens of thousands of years ago... His Azure Dragon true form degenerated due to his dealings with the Wang family and stalling for time, and it can no longer be restored.